Job 16:17

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Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.

The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

"Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.

Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.

I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.

If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;